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Documentary Photography: Engaged Observers

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“Documentary Photography: Engaged Observers” is a collection of photographs by photographers who created extended photographic essays that delved deeply into topics of social concern and presented distinct personal visions of the world. Following in the tradition of Walker Evans and other Depression-era photographers, this series of focuses on the tradition of socially engaged photographic essays since the 1960s. “Engaged Observers” includes photographs from the following projects: “The Mennonites” by Larry Towell, “Streetwise” by Mary Ellen Mark, “Black in White America” by Leonard Freed, “Vietnam Inc.” by Philip Jones Griffiths, “The Sacrifice” by James Nachtwey and “Migrations: Humanity in Transition” by Sebastião Salgado.

This piece includes a number of high resolution photographs, a remarkable slide show and three documentary short films.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/photos-of-the-day-engaged-observers/
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